[Linux-disciples] Fetchmail weirdness

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 04:10:45PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Nope, but maybe it's timing out on the exchange/IMAP connection. Isn't there
> a timeout variable for fetchmail?

       -t <seconds> | --timeout <seconds>
              (Keyword: timeout) The timeout option allows you to set a server-nonresponse  timeout  in  seconds.   If  a
              mailserver  does not send a greeting message or respond to commands for the given number of seconds, fetch‐
              mail will hang up on it.  Without such a timeout fetchmail might hang up indefinitely trying to fetch  mail
              from  a  down host.  This would be particularly annoying for a fetchmail running in background.  There is a
              default timeout which fetchmail -V will report.  If a given connection receives too many timeouts  in  suc‐
              cession, fetchmail will consider it wedged and stop retrying, the calling user will be notified by email if
              this happens.

I doubt that's it, though: the connection seems never to
timeout otherwise. But I'll increase that amount and see if
that fixed anything.

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